Word: bella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most intriguing episodes following the Algerian cease-fire was the homecoming of Mohammed Ben Bella...
Considered the ablest and most popular of the F.L.N. rebels, Ben Bella was kidnaped in 1956 when, together with four other Algerian leaders, he boarded a Moroccan plane to fly to Tunis. The French pilot unexpectedly landed at Algiers airport and handed his passengers over to the French, who kept them prisoners for the next five years. In accordance with the ceasefire, De Gaulle's government last week released Ben Bella and his friends from confinement in the Chateau D'Au-noy, near Paris. The French wanted to return Ben Bella and his companions to Morocco, but both...
...Bella was put aboard an Air France Caravelle to Switzerland, where he was delivered into the hands of Morocco's African Affairs Minister, Dr. Abdelkrim Khatib. Then the U.S. entered the picture. Responding to a request by Morocco's King Hassan II, the State Department, "with President Kennedy's knowledge," passed the problem on to the Military Air Transport Service, which produced a Pan Am Boeing 707 jet available for charter...
...least, a vast share of these problems will be the burden of Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda. Many observers feel that Benkhedda may not last as Premier, may be replaced by someone with a greater popular following or a stronger gift for political intrigue. One possible candidate: suave, wily Mohammed ben Bella, the F.L.N. 's "iron man," who is scheduled to be released from five years of French imprisonment at the ceasefire, along with four other F.L.N. leaders. But for a tran sition period at least, Benkhedda is the man in charge...
...Simultaneously, France will release Rebel Leader Mohammed ben Bella and four of his colleagues, who were seized five years ago when the French pilot of their Moroccan plane landed at Algiers. Ben Bella and his friends will be flown from their place of detention, the Château d'Aulnoy near Paris, to Rabat, where a heroes' welcome is being prepared for them by Morocco's King Hassan...